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I was doing so well with the spiritual exercising! But...

...on the day after the aforementioned Baptism of Our Lord service, my brother arrived for his first visit to Switzerland since 2017, and he's staying just eight days, so all non-essential routines [including meditation and writing; laundry is somehow still on, hmph] have been canceled. Will I just skip a week? Try to catch up somehow? All questions for another day. 

On January 13 - Old New Year's Eve - we made a pilgrimage to Urnäsch in Appenzell to see Silvesterclausen (video), and while we were there we went to the Museum of Appenzeller Traditions to pay homage to our namesake, the Bloch.